The Top 100 Drugs: Clinical Pharmacology and Practical Prescribing
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Now in its third edition, this small and accessible guide contains essential information for the safe prescribing of the most commonly used drugs in the NHS.
The Top 100 Drugs combines the best elements of a students’ textbook with those of a prescribers’ manual. It gives equal weight to essential information on the science of pharmacology as well as the real-world practicalities of prescribing, all in an accessible and clear format.
Written by leaders in the field of clinical pharmacology, this popular book has been fully revised and updated to include the drugs used today, including monoclonal antibodies and antiviral drugs for COVID-19. With common indications, mechanism of action, adverse effects, important interactions and a clinical tip for each drug as well as questions to test knowledge, this book is key to helping students understand everything they need to know about the drugs they are likely to use in practice.
- Compact and easy to follow – can be carried around on the wards
- Logically ordered – offers multiple ways to find the drug you are looking for
- A Clinical Tip for each drug, drawn from the authors’ experience
- 100 self-assessment questions to encourage integration and revision of knowledge and understanding
- Fully updated to include the most commonly prescribed drugs today, based on original research led by the authors of over 1 billion community prescriptions and approximately 1 million hospital prescriptions
- All drug monographs extensively reviewed and updated
- Dedicated section emergency drugs
- Updated self-assessment material, now including calculation and prescription-writing questions, in addition to single-best-answer questions
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Additional information
| Publisher | 3rd edition (5 Nov. 2022), Elsevier |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 351 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0323834450 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0323834452 |
| Dimensions | 12.4 x 1.8 x 18.59 cm |
by D.A.
I used it to revise for my exam it was great
by Customer
I like the quality and quantity of drug spicific information. The Authors have broken down key information into sub heading for example “mechanism of action” and “common indications”. There isn’t an overwhelming amount of information. I would definitely recommend!
by Adebimpe Adepoju
It is a good resource for my job. I am so happy I bought the recent edition. A colleague used it a few years ago and I was going to buy it then.
by Raghav Kumar Sharma
Excellent book. Very easy to carry and concise, yet comprehensive. Seems to be pitched at the perfect level for undergraduate Medicine.
by BXW
Very good book.
by PJ Byrne
A Huge Help. I Am Now Very Familiar With The Most Important Drugs. I Know More Than Some Of My Colleagues. Not Worth The Upgrade If You Have The First Edition Though